Designer Surfaces

This book presents an approach to the design and fabrication of optical elements that are based on the use of one- or two-dimensional randomly rough surfaces to reflect or transmit light in specified ways. The reader is provided with an introduction to analytical methods for the solution of direct problems in rough surface scattering, and fabrication techniques. These can be useful in contexts outside the scope of this book. The advantages and disadvantages of this stochastic approach compared to the diffractive optics approach are discussed. Finally, experimental results that verify the predictions of the theories developed in this book are presented. - authority of authors- the only book on the topic- derivations are given in detail, with many figures illustrating results One-dimensional surfaces Perfectly conducting surfaces Penetrable surfaces A random surface that suppresses leakage Surfaces that display enhanced backscattering for only a single specified angle of incidence Surfaces that synthesize infrared absorption spectra Surfaces that produce specified thermal emissivities Control of the coherence of the light scattered Surfaces that produce a prescribed angular dependence Replacement of ensemble averaging by the use of a broadband incident field in calculations Fabrication of one-dimensional surfaces Two dimensional surfaces The design of two-dimensional randomly rough surfaces Random diffusers that extend the depth of focus A two-dimensional randomly rough surface that acts as a Gaussian Schell-model source Fabrication of circularly-symmetric surfaces. This book presents an approach to the design and fabrication of optical elements that are based on the use of one- or two-dimensional randomly rough surfaces to reflect or transmit light in specified ways. The reader is provided with an introduction to analytical methods for the solution of direct problems in rough surface scattering, and fabrication techniques. These can be useful in contexts outside the scope of this book. The advantages and disadvantages of this stochastic approach compared to the diffractive optics approach are discussed. Finally, experimental results that verify the predictions of the theories developed in this book are presented.

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- derivations are given in detail, with many figures illustrating results Designer Surfaces presents an approach to the design and fabrication of optical elements that are based on the use of one- or two-dimensional randomly rough surfaces to reflect or transmit light in specified ways. The reader is provided with an introduction to analytical methods for the solution of direct problems in rough surface scattering, and fabrication techniques. These can be useful in contexts outside the scope of this book. The advantages and disadvantages of this stochastic approach compared to the diffractive optics approach are discussed. Finally, experimental results that verify the predictions of the theories developed in this book are presented. Authority of authors The only book on the topic Derivations are given in detail, with many figures illustrating results "This book presents an approach to the design and fabrication of optical elements of the kind that is based on the use of one- or two-dimensional randomly rough surfaces to reflect or transmit light in specified ways, and is not based on interference. It also presents the reader with an introduction to analytic and computational methods for the solution of the direct problem in rough surface scattering, and fabrication techniques that can be useful in disadvantages of this stochastic approach compared to the diffractive optics approach are discussed. Finally, experimental results that verify the predictions to the theories developed in this book are presented."--Jacket